Epidendrum carolii Schltr. 1923 GROUP Carloii Photo courtesy of Joe Linger
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Common Name Carol's Epidendrum
Flower Size 3/8" [1.75 cm]
Found in Jalisco, and Oaxaca states of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in open wet montane oak forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clumped, terete stems enveloped by a few, acuminate, scarious sheaths and carrying 2+ , apical, narrowly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the spring through fall on a simple, racemose [rarely branched], 8"+ [20 cm+] long, slender, few to several flowered inflorescence arising on a mature cane and carrying small, resupinate, slightly scented flowers.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 35. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 117. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923;Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 27 Hagsater and Salazar 1990; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1018 Dodson 1984; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 722 Hagsater & Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum Vol 11 Plate 1164 Hagsater & Sanchez 2008 see recognition section
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